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What is the SSPX? A look at the traditionalist Catholic group in schism with the Church
Posted on 07/2/2026 14:25 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist group that is not in full communion with the Catholic Church and has a canonically irregular status.
Catholic leaders urge Poland and Ukraine to pursue reconciliation, disarm language
Posted on 07/2/2026 13:36 PM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Catholic leaders from Poland and Ukraine issued a rare joint appeal for reconciliation, urging forgiveness, peace, and Christian unity amid rising historical and political tensions.
French woman’s petition asks Europe to support mothers facing pressure to abort
Posted on 07/2/2026 10:06 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
Charlène Bernard says pressure from her partner and health professionals ended in an abortion she never wanted. Now she is asking the EU to support women who want to keep their babies.
Seton Hall president ‘not implicated’ in internal sex allegation report, Newark Archdiocese says
Posted on 07/1/2026 16:51 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
Cardinal Joseph Tobin said Monsignor Joseph Reilly "responded promptly" to sexual harassment allegations, though he failed to follow Title IX requirements due to a lack of training.
Nun arrested by ICE while walking to Sunday Mass in Texas released after lawmakers’ intervention
Posted on 07/1/2026 13:24 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
The incident comes amid heightened immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, which has included operations near houses of worship.
Supreme Court will hear Catholic-backed Jewish religious liberty suit involving ‘finality’ rule
Posted on 07/1/2026 12:39 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
Daniel Grand is asking the high court to rule on his long-running lawsuit against the city of University Heights, Ohio.
After 150 years, Norway’s largest Catholic church is finally consecrated
Posted on 07/1/2026 10:24 AM (CNA Daily News - Europe)
More than 150 years after it first opened, St. Paul's in Bergen — now Norway's largest Catholic parish, with faithful from over 120 nations — has finally been consecrated.
Quantum physics meets Catholic theology at first-of-its-kind gathering
Posted on 07/1/2026 06:00 AM (CNA Daily News - US)
A new international meeting of physicists, philosophers, and theologians will take place July 12–15 at Chapman University in Orange, California.
A New Mexico mountain with Christ at the top is the latest battleground in U.S. immigration debate
Posted on 06/30/2026 16:15 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
Mount Cristo Rey in the Diocese of Las Cruces stands over a disputed patch of borderland that the U.S. government is attempting to seize from the Catholic Church.
Major relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque to visit Baltimore basilica
Posted on 06/30/2026 13:00 PM (CNA Daily News - US)
The reliquary that is touring the U.S. weighs nearly 150 pounds with its protective case. It contains St. Margaret Mary Alacoque’s clavicles, two of her ribs, and a small piece of her brain.